Hunting with your kids, youth hunts?

[ray1970]

Not sure what type of advice you’re looking for.

My only advice would be to emphasize safety and ethics.

Also, when my son was about that age and wanted to hunt I took him to the range and explained to him that until he could hit a three inch target reliably at a hundred yards that I wasn’t taking him hunting.

Also, kids that age tend to want to do stuff because either they think it’s cool or they think their friends will think they’re cool. I explained to my son that while it could be a fun experience that it would definitely be work. I’m sure in his head all he pictured was shooting his rifle and killing an animal. What he didn’t factor in was setting up camp, getting up way before the sun, hiking about three miles to the other side of a valley, tracking a wounded animal, field dressing and quartering the animal, making multiple hikes back to camp with the meat, etc.

Needless to say he decided after his first trip that hunting really wasn’t his thing.

[CS1983]

Maybe do a few fake recon hunts.. Get her up early before sunrise and drive up in the mtns, head into the woods somewhere, and see if you can find a deer or elk to stalk and see how close you can get to it.. get some practice in.

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